Using implementation intentions to teach practitioners: Changing practice behaviors via continuing education
Using implementation intentions to teach practitioners: Changing practice behaviors via continuing education
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DOI:
10.1176/appi.ps.59.7.747
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发表时间:
2008-07-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Casper, Edward S.
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作者:
Casper, Edward S.
Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of implementation intentions on increasing the use of a practice behavior among mental health practitioners who attended a one-day continuing education class. Methods: Seventy-eight practitioners were randomly assigned to one of two classes on psychiatric advance directives. One class incorporated instruction in implementation intentions ( N=40) and the other class did not (N=38). Implementation intention training involved having the participants describe the best time and place to use a practitioner-guided procedure to assist consumers to complete a psychiatric advance directive. Use of the practitioner- guided procedure was the dependent variable in this study. Use of the procedure in practice was assessed three months after the class via an electronic self-report survey. Results: There were no statistically significant differences between the two class conditions in participant characteristics or preclass or postclass knowledge of and intentions to use the procedure. Fifty-four participants ( 69%) responded to the three-month follow-up survey, indicating that they had used the practitioner- guided procedure. The results of the follow-up survey showed that overall those attending the class that incorporated implementation intentions used the practitioner- guided procedure significantly more often than those in the other class ( 80% versus 58%). The effect of implementation intentions on utilization of the practitioner-guided procedure was evident among practitioners whose postclass intentions were high but below the median for the overall sample (chi(2)= 7.1, df= 1, p